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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Cottononi on April 03, 2019, 12:52:29 PM
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...And by the title I mean, what specific ponies have some flaws that are very common amongst them? For example, Cherry Treats is known to be pony that gets yellowish with time, not to forget all the ponies with pale pink hair that will almost certainly fade to white.
What other examples come to mind? (Also, if you have discovered how to avoid/stop those flaws, please tell others too!)
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Oh man, Party Time and her heckin "regrind" spots! >_< A lot of Twinkle Eyes have similar problems, but not as bad as her. I have never in my life seen a spotless Party Time.
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Oh man, Party Time and her heckin "regrind" spots! >_< A lot of Twinkle Eyes have similar problems, but not as bad as her. I have never in my life seen a spotless Party Time.
Funny, she was the first one that came into my mind as well O.o.
Also going to add problems with standing - ponies in the Love Melody pose.
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Poor Sweet Stuff and her age spots. :(
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Oh man we could go on and on here! I’m interested to see what everyone else puts.
Gingerbread and brown spots.
Obviously Flutter ponies and missing wings.
And rollerskate ponies with missing wheels. I have a mint one on eBay at the moment and it is the only one I’ve had pass through my hands in about 4/5 that has all the wheels.
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Rollers also tend to have failed mechanisms now. It's not because the motors go - but because the rubber on the drive wheels goes hard and loses the friction to grip. It's very sad :(
I would love to know if anyone has successfully managed to find a way to repair this, as the rollerskates ponies are quite fun when they function.
Also, the Magic Message ponies, whose symbols are often rubbed, or sometimes come off completely...
I've noticed that Pocket ponies from the US often have missing pockets or pocket pets (but have mostly great hair). In the UK the pockets are often fine, but the hair is often suspect. Can't win :/
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Cloud Puff Flutter Pony has a tendancy to have regrind too. Fortunately, it is kinda pretty (pink spots)
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Party Time was the first one I thought as well. Mine has several hot pink patches all over her. Windy Wing Skydancer also gets regrind.
I forgot about the Magic Message ponies although I should have remembered since my childhood Mirror Mirror's coating came off and her symbol is now stuck and unable to change back.
Ponyfan
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The yellowing white ponies, the browning white ponies, the regrind, the rock hard BigBrothers (you could give someone a serious blow to the head with one!), the love melody and majesty poses have no balance, also fading pink hair is an issue... what else... oh the happy tails tend to break! The perfume puffs go funny brownish colors. Roller skating ponies, they break too..
Same with the talking ponies
The eyelash princesses go from Diva Beauty to fallen popstar tabloid mugshot photos.
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I was looking for a really nice Galaxy on eBay yesterday and every single one listed had coarse hair. I think it's just the texture of her hair colors or something? Adult Sugarberry also tends to have coarse hair. It's strange because her hair isn't that different in color from Cherry Treats, who usually has nice silky hair.
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Now you mention it, my Strawberry Fair (Sugarberry)'s tail is now a big fuzzy mess, and so is Tropical Breeze's hair - but Strawberry's mane (from which my friend accidentally washed curls and which has since been recurled) is fine. I wonder if there's a relationship between those things. Cherry Treats has straight hair. You also see less frizz or issues on the hair type in the UK CJ from 1986 than on the 1985 one that has curls as a rule. I think curly is a big part of this.
I also have never yet had a broken Happytails pony, but I have seen interestingly broken DnP ponies...
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Chief and Quackers with age spots come to mind for me.
For hair, my Cherry Treats has nice hair and Sugarberry is frizzy and coarse too. I guess it’s just the curls?
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My favorite thing about the Dance 'n Prance ponies is how nearly every one of their elaborate accessories is designed to hide their bizarre nature. Giant KNOB IN CHEST? No problem, drape a boa around it! Unsightly plastic slip around the base of the tail so the hair doesn't get tangled? Nothing a GIANT RIBBON can't solve!
My other favorite thing is they were produced AFTER the Happy Tails ponies, who managed to look like basically normal ponies even though they had the same spinny tail gimmick.
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The giant knob is better than the gaping hole or sharp broken spike left behind when the knob gets broken...
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Funny, she was the first one that came into my mind as well O.o.
Party Time was the first one I thought as well.
She's Just. That. Bad. :lol: Gingerbread and Sweet Stuff are pretty notorious for spotting as well, so I guess all TE ponies in that pose are Officially Cursed.
My other favorite thing is they were produced AFTER the Happy Tails ponies, who managed to look like basically normal ponies even though they had the same spinny tail gimmick.
I had this same revelation just the other day when I was photographing ponies to sell. :P
Twirler: Sorry, Romper, I don't think I can dance anymore...
Romper: Awww! You just need a HUG!
Twirler: That's not gonna do it... I think I need to get this weird growth on my chest looked at...
Romper: Wait... what?!?
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For me, the Tipsiest Pose Award goes to the Firefly mold, but Love Melody's is a close second. Fizzy's pose is third. She often tips forward, but at least she doesn't tip OVER.
I agree that curly hair gets significantly drier and coarser as it ages than its straight counterpart, especially for the more neon colors. Speaking of hair, the Sunshine ponies' color changing streak is often a mess. And speaking of color change, I don't even know where to begin with the Watercolor Baby Seaponies. It's a perfect concept, but I don't think the technology was quite there yet. Poor Seawinkle especially gets stuck in an awful muddy taupe color. :(
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My sister has a Seashore which is a beautiful shade of...goose poop.
My MOC one is a dark aqua colour, and my loose one is snotty beige. How that transition happens is a mystery to me, but anyway. Snotty beige is better than goose poop, but I prefer the dark aqua ;)
I have only seen Seawinkle in a dark rich lobsterish colour.
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Most of the ones I had come to mind were already mentioned. The Sunshine ponies with frizzy stripes are always fun. I've seen no Seaflowers with frizzless hair, but my Wave Runner has no frizz issues.
Baby Blossom usually ends up a delightfully dreary off-white color at some point. I am now the lucky owner of a Cloud Puff with the most delightfully interesting regrind. I feel like Gingerbread gets rock hard more often than other ponies?
I think Seashell always has some sort of purple issue?
On that note, I know a lot of the G4s that are bright purple have MAJOR head/body mismatch issues. Even the Twilights from the early years always look off.
Oh, and the Precious Pocket ponies and their missing symbols.
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My sister has a Seashore which is a beautiful shade of...goose poop.
My MOC one is a dark aqua colour, and my loose one is snotty beige. How that transition happens is a mystery to me, but anyway. Snotty beige is better than goose poop, but I prefer the dark aqua ;)
I have only seen Seawinkle in a dark rich lobsterish colour.
Snotty beige is the perfect description! :lol: It's like the color just gives up completely and turns some shade of tan/brown no matter what it was before. My Seawinkle's body is a gross shade of khaki. She really does look like a booger with a cute pony face! XD
Adult seaponies have their own problems with discoloration too, especially White Cap and Sea Mist. And that's on top of the rust and mold that comes with the bath-toy territory. :(
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flutterponies and their wings...They always seem to get lost, broken, ect. My one flutterpony rosedust came with no wings, nUt I love her either way :)
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I don't think there's any such thing as a perfectly white Quackers, they always have brown spots.
Sweetstuff (and some others in that pose?) has a tendency to become rock-hard.
Ponies who originally had curly hair are prone to ending up very frizzy.
And a lot of Sweetheart Sisters have serious trouble standing up straight!
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Adult seaponies have their own problems with discoloration too, especially White Cap and Sea Mist. And that's on top of the rust and mold that comes with the bath-toy territory. :(
This is sadly so true. I love White Cap and Sea Mist, but both mine are slowly becoming things of horror through the discolouration of the plastic. I would really love Basic FUn to make this set, even just those two, just so I know what they actually look like in proper white. Because they weren't sold here and I have never seen an actually white White Cap or Sea Mist.
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Most of what I would have said has already been covered by others :)
I have seen so many Applejacks with pin dot problems, and Posey with highlighter marks. TE ponies often lose the shine on their eyes, or even worse they become damaged. Secret Surprise ponies lose their keys, or even the entire saddle.
Almost ALL ponies lose their ribbons (grr!) - what's up with that? Pesky ribbon-losing ponies.
Ponies who had really long hair to start with often end up having it in dreadlocks, or - gasp - cut by frustrated kids / parents of kids. While the brush and grow ponies mechanisms break. In fact I suppose we should be impressed by all the mechanisms / gimmicks that are NOT broken after 30 or so years.
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One of the common flaws that makes me sad is the G3 divine shine ponies losing all their glitter! :( so far mine are still sparkly, but I can feel their plastic is breaking down, so it may just be a matter of time before it dissolves away. I've tried to keep them out of the sunlight and in a pretty steady climate, but it doesn't seem there's much rhyme or reason to the way these girls deteriorate. It's too bad because they're such a pretty set!
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Sugarberry with ingrined dirt in her legs...
FF ponies with cancer and yellowing.
MPP with cloudy eyes and frizzy hair.
BBE's with demonic rust...
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Little off-topic, but speaking of frizzy/tangled pony hair, do any of those who grew up with G1 remember if pony hair got messy easily? Because when you have a silky haired G1 pony now, it feels that the hair gets combed straight with only few brush strokes. Is it just that most kids didn't have to tame their ponies' hair? Or was it same as nowadays when it feels that modern -clearly lower quality- hair gets tangled even if the pony isn't actively played with?
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The ponies I had all had nice silky hair EXCEPT: Skydancer, who had a frizzy tail. (While Parasol from the same set has a silky tail so . . . I dunno.) And Bouquet, whose hair got tangled just from being so long. (It was still pretty silky though.) No, it would not get messed up if you just left the pony alone and didn't play with her. And even if you were actively brushing her, most of the time the hair stayed silky.
But it does depend on the hair color I think, like I don't know that I've ever seen a Surprise with hair that I would call "silky". It's always a bit coarse. And her hair would certainly get frizzy from brushing more easily than a Glory or a Lemon Drop.
In general, though, G1 ponies just had really silky, high quality hair . . . not just "compared to 2019 toys", but also compared to other 80s toys. Like, Barbie and Little Pretties and She-Ra had NOTHING on pony hair.
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Honeycomb has the same hair shade as Surprise with no extreme frizz problems like Surprise has, so I think that's curl more than colour tbh. Mimic's streak is also that neon colour, but straight hair doesn't have the same problems as curly.
Curly...Shady's the only early pony I have whose curls stayed intact because I never brushed her. Her tail is a bit messy now. My Cherries J had terrible hair but that was mostly because I made her swim in puddles. I don't recommend this xd.
I used to style and brush my ponies a lot, esp the 2 Brush & Grows. Braided Beauty's tail has shown the damage of this, although I keep it braided it is frizzed at the end. Her mane is fine. Stargleamer is a bit generally the worse for wear, same issue with the tail - mane it's the tinsel more than the hair that's the problem.
The biggest issues hairwise among my childhood ponies - Sand Digger's white sections (unsurprising) and also any from the 1992 line that have the coarser hair (so all the teeny tinies for a start...)
Brightglow somehow got away with having half curly and half straight hair from factory and yet has escaped frizz completely so far. I had her from new and I used to style her straight sections but the most I ever really did to the curly bits was comb and tie a ribbon in them.
My Strawberry Fair had curls, had them accidentally washed out, so had straight hair for several years. I then put tiny braids in her mane for a year or two. Then I washed those out and recurled it. Now her hair is still curly albeit recurled and not frizzy. That's a lot of abuse but the mane survived. I had to do a lot of work on the tail to curl it and hide the frizzy ends though...
I think G1 hair survived better than some new pony hair does, and was more reasonable in its quantity most of the time than the overheavy manes and tails of G3 and G4. But curly definitely has more long term issues than straight, and different hair fibres WERE used which also have an impact.
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Honeycomb and the black pin-dot smooze.
I have found so many Honeycombs that have this, it's such an effort to wash it off! *scrape, scrape, scrape*
Scratched-up TE eye jewels.
Baby Blossom turning grey.
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I saw talk of tippin poses and I gotta say, the only poses that tip over for me are collector pose, Tootsie, and Dainty (SHS) but the latter two just have misbent legs.
Also, can confirm both my Sugarberrys have had coarse hair while my Cherry Treats has silky hair. Also my roller skating pony came to me with missing wheels but at least her mechanism still works!
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I think the curliness is a factor, but not the only factor because long-haired Bow Tie, Applejack, Medley, and Firefly have silky hair . . . Their hair seems identical to their straight-haired versions, just shorter. Cherries Jubilee (US curly haired version) usually has silky hair when I find her . . . I recently got a Bonnie Bonnets and even though her curls were a bit messy, they weren't frizzy and I easily reformed them so they looked nice.
Seems to be a combo of certain hair colors + curls that leads to frizziness. Maybe certain colors reacted poorly to . . . whatever the factory technique was that Hasbro used for curls.
I agree that the G1s had a more balanced look than the G3s / G4s who have a ton of mane and not much tail. (And the tails are also placed weirdly low on the G4s.) I honestly don't like the trend of having manes down to the floor either, but that's just personal preference. I get that 'hair play' is part of the brand, but it makes them look less horsey.
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I used to have Y3 AJ MOC, and I remember her hair wasn't really curled properly, just folded in half in the package. I no longer have her, but it doesn't seem like they went to much effort to curl her xD.
I wonder if it's also to do with how well the pony's hair is taken care of as well.
The UK CJ tends not to have problems but can have dry hair, rather than frizz. I have also found the y3 CJ here with curls that are fine. And then there's my puddleswimmer, about whom the least said the better...
Her hair now looks like she escaped from a 60s hippy rally, but when I was a kid it was mostly sticking up in the air in two directions like rabbit ears...
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Several of the Twinkle Eyes often have yellowing/cancer these days: Gingerbread, Sweet Stuff, Masquerade, with Masquerade particularly prone to head/body mismatch as well. Whizzer I haven't seen with cancer but she almost always has the head/body mismatch. Galaxy is prone to regrind and head/body mismatch but there are still lots of good ones out there if you fix the hair. I think the most important things to slow these issues down are to make sure they are clean and dry and stored somewhere with ventilation at as stable a temperature as possible. My whizzer has a scarf.